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TO KY FRIEND 



TO MY FRIEND 

By 
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 




Decorated by 
Emily Hall Chamberlain 



The BobbS' Merrill Company 
publishers 



Copyright, 1883, 1888, 1891, 1910, 1913. 1914 
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 



SEP iCI9l4 



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You alius had a 
kind word of 
counsul to impart. 

Which was like a 
healin' 'intment to 
the sorrow of 
my hart. 




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And sence 1 can 
remember, from 
the time we've 
neghbored here. 

In all sich friendly 
actions you have 
double-done your 
sheer. 




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Ways was devius, 
William Leachman, 
that me and you 

has past; 



But as 1 found you 
true at first, 1 find 
you true at last 



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And, now the 
time's a-comin' 
mighty nigh our 
jurney's end. 



I want to throw 
wide open all my 
soul to you, 

my friend. 





With the stren th 
of all my bein , 
and the heat of 
hart and brane, 



And ev'ry livin 
drop of blood in 
artery and vane, 





When we had to 
go on hoss-back, 
and sometimes 
on "Shanks's mare/' 

And "blaze" a road 
fer them behind 
that had to travel 
thare. 




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And now we was 
a-trottin 'long a 
level gravel pike, 

In a big two-hoss 
road-wagon, jest 
as easy as you 
like- 



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